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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
3
A dated column muses on aging and youth and the sunlit bias of modern life. It humorously laments faults in the elderly and hints at trusting appearances, then veers into a toast about men as husbands and companions, praising them with playful hyperbole.
A guidance piece urges soon to be leaving home to seek fortune to plan and work with forethought and prudence. It warns against vice and seeks to balance wealth with virtue noting religion as essential and urging cultivation of mind and character to become a noble man.
An essay extols the value of boys doing hard work on a farm and running errands. It argues boys speed progress with tasks, frolics with play, and learn discipline through manual labor. Parents who shelter sons are blamed for harm. good manners enhance a girl's appeal.
A workman on a London underground platform fell toward live rails but survived after the first car passed over him. He had been sleeping, apparently intoxicated, and escaped serious harm.
The quote captures a tense moment at a dinner where the speaker proclaims this is an age of steel and interrupts with a garbled line about spelling a final word, while the chair and reporters react to the disruption.
A study traces that many now prominent railway executives started in lowly roles. Figures such as W C Brown, Frederick Underwood, and J T Harraban began as section hands or clerks, showing that persistence and daily performance opened major opportunities in the railroad industry.
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